Curtain-bracket.



S. A. MACEY. CURTAIN BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.22,19I6.

Patented Apr. 10, 1917.

ciafmz/h ,jL. Ma/ce y lit) SARAH A. MACEY, 0F LAS ANIIVIAS, COLORADO.

CURTAIN-BRACKET.

Application filed September 22, 1916.

T '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SARAH A. MACEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Las Animas, in the county of Bent and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in the construction of curtain brackets, and the object of the invention is to construct a curtain bracket which may be adjusted to accommodate itself to various sizes of window casings and which has its ends formed with angular spring members or cars that are adapted to be received between and frictionally engaged by angular spring members disposed upon members arranged vertically of the window casing, whereby the bracket members may be adjusted vertically with respect to the window casing and by the frictional contact of the members just referred to, be self-sustained in such adjusted position.

With the above and other objects in view the improvement resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and falling within the scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a perspective View illustrating the application of the improvement,

Fig. 2 is a sectional view approximately on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of one of the vertical members of the device, and

Fig. 5 is a similar view of one of the bracket members.

In the drawing, the numerals 1 designate the vertical members or stiles of a window casing and the numeral 2 designates the upper horizontal. member thereof connecting the stiles. Secured to the vertical membore 1 are guide members 3. Each of these guide members is constructed from a plate of spring material which adjacent its opposite edges is bent upon itself to provide the outer face of the plate with spaced angular spring flanges 4. The bracket members proper are indicated by the numerals 5 and 6 respectively and are each of a similar construction, except that one of the brackets is provided with a perforation to receive the rounded trunnion of window curtain Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr, 114), 191?.

Serial No. 121,637.

roller while the other is provided with a slot to receive the squared end of the spring shaft of the said pole. Each of the brackets comprises a flat plate that is preferably bent upon itself so that the opposite sides thereof, for the major portion of their lengths, lie flat one against the other, while the ends of the said members are bent outwardly at opposite angles providing spring wings 7-7, and these spring wings are adapted to frictionally contact with the spring flanges 4 e of the guide members 3, the brackets proper being received in the space or opening between the inner edges of the flanges l of each of the members 3. Each of the bracket members is provided upon one of its sides or faces with an angularly disposed flat member 8, the said member being constructed of spring material and being bent inwardly and angularly over the inner faces of the said members 8 thus providing each of the said members 8 with spring flanges 99, and one of the members 8 is adapted to telescope within the other member so that the spring flanges 9 thereof will exert a pressure one toward the other and by this means it will be noted that the bracket members may be sustained in a longitudinally adjusted position upon the window casing and also that the members 8 will be at all times sustained in proper alinement one with the other.

From the above description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the simplicity of the device, as well as the ad vantages thereof will, it is thought, be perfectly apparent to those skilled in the art to which such invention appertains without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. In combination with a window casing, of a curtain bracket therefor, said bracket including members arranged upon the vertical stiles of the casing and having inturned spring flanges, the brackets each having its inner end provided with oppositely disposed angularly arranged spring wings which are adapted to be engaged by the spring flanges when the bracket members are inserted within the vertical members between the flanges thereof and the connecting members for the brackets.

52. In a curtain roller supporting means, guide plates having spaced angularly disposed spring flanges upon one of their faces,

bracket members constructed each from a piece of spring material and bent upon itself and having its ends outturned to provide oppositely disposed angular wings which are adapted to co-act with the flanges of the guide members when the brackets are arranged' upon the guide members, angular members formed upon the brackets and extending toward each other, each of said angular members comprising a spring plate having its ends bent to provide angular flanges, and one of the angular members adapted to telescope Within the other angular member.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

SARAH A. MAGEY.

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